Liquid hydrocarbon.



Mirna 'IA'IES GEORGE TAYLOR AND ISAAC BAY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

LIQUID HYDROCARBON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,370, dated December 4, 1900.

Application filed February 6, 1899. Serial No. 704,685. (No specimens.)

T0 ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE TAYLOR and ISAAC RAY, mechanical engineers, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 32 Pages Walk, Bermondsey, London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid Hydrocarbons, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the manufacture of liquid hydrocarbons, the object of the same being to provide a hydrocarbon mixture which will serve both for illuminating purposes and for use upon internal-explosion engines.

Our liquid hydrocarbon is formed of the following ingredients and preferably in the following proportions: gasolene of a flashpoint 66 Fahrenheit, one gallon; cocoanutoil, one-half pound; crude petroleum, onefourth pint.

mixed together.

Ordinary oils or combinations of the same cannot be used both for illuminating purposes and as gaseous mixtures for internal- Said ingredients are thoroughly explosion engines without the establishment of an expensive plant, whereas our mixture, while very cheap, is readily brought into gaseous form bya moderate increase in temperature and by the admixture of a proper volume of air. The gas produced from it is not explosive unless mingled with a large portion of air. It is safer, therefore, than the ordinary oil-gas.

WVe claim A liquid hydrocarbon for the manufacture of gas for illuminating and other purposes, consisting of a mixture of gasolene having a flash-point of about 66 Fahrenheit, with cocoanut-oil and crude petroleum in substantially the proportions described.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing Wit- GEORGE TAYLOR. ISAAC RAY. Witnesses:

GEORGE O. DOWNING, FRED O. HARRIS. 

